CSIBD and
Broad Immunology Symposium 2021
Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (CSIBD) &
the Center for Computational and Integrative Biology (CCIB) present:
31st Annual Symposium & Workshop
November 18, 2021
&
Broad Immunology Program presents:
2nd Broad Immunology Program Symposium
November 19th, 2021
Schedule of Events
Thursday, November 18th, 2021
31st Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Workshop
8:50 – 9:00 CSIBD Overview - Ramnik J. Xavier, M.D., Director
Session I Innate sensing at the host-microbe interface
(Moderators: Gail Hecht / Cheri Sirois)
9:00 - 9:30 Kate Fitzgerald, Ph.D.
“Mechanisms involved in the restriction of SARS-CoV2 Infection.”
9:30 - 10:00 Feng Shao, Ph.D.
"Pyroptosis in antibacterial & antitumor immunity"
10:00 - 10:30 Hao Wu, Ph.D.
“Trapped in droplets: A new mode of sensing danger”
10:30 - 11:00 Jonathan Kagan, Ph.D.
“Initiation and Regulation of Innate Immunity”
Keynote I
11:00 - 12:00 Jenny Ting, Ph.D.
“Innate immune receptors: their links to adaptive immunity and the microbiome”
12:00-1:00 Break
Session II Microbe engineering and microbial therapies
(Moderators: Curtis Huttenhower, Hera Vlamakis)
1:00 - 1:30 Nicola Segata, Ph.D.
“Metagenomic modelling of fecal microbiota transplantation”
1:30 - 2:00 Ben Boursi, M.D.
"Microbiota and cancer - an ecological journey"
2:00 - 2:30 Matthew Henke, Ph.D.
“Characterization of narrow-spectrum antibiotics from patient isolates of Ruminococcus gnavus"
2:30 - 3:00 Cammie Lesser, M.D., Ph.D.
“Engineered bacteria for the site specific delivery of therapeutics to the gut”
3:00 - 3:30 Justin Sonnenburg, Ph.D.
“Engineering and Rewilding the Gut Microbiome”
3:30 - 4:00 Gautam Dantas, Ph.D.
“Predicting and Combating Biotic and Abiotic Disruptions to Diverse Microbiomes”
4:00 - 5:00 Roundtable: The Path to Microbiome-based Therapies
(co-sponsored by CMIT)
Schedule of Events
Friday, November 19th, 2021
2nd Broad Immunology Symposium
Session III Inflammation and myeloid cell biology
(Moderators: Charles Elson / Jacques Deguine)
9:00 - 9:30 Hilary Finucane, Ph.D.
"Leveraging polygenic enrichments of gene features to predict genes underlying complex traits and diseases"
9:30 - 10:00 Sun Hur, Ph.D.
“Molecular mechanism for self vs. non-self RNA discrimination”
10:00 - 10:30 Hailiang Huang, Ph.D.
“Large-scale sequencing and multi-ancestry genetic analyses identify novel genes and variants associated with IBD”
10:30 - 11:00 Rosandra Kaplan, M.D.
“Myeloid biology in dysregulated microenvironments and therapeutic opportunities”
11:00 - 11:30 Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D.
“Nutrient adaptation in the intestine”
11:30 - 12:00 Katrin Andreasson, M.D.
“Immune-metabolic mechanisms of cognitive decline in aging”
12:00 - 1:00 Break
Keynote II
1:00 - 2:00 Richard Flavell, Ph.D., FRS
“Commensal derived metabolites promote pro-inflammatory T cell differentiation and IBD pathogenesis”
Session IV Metabolism and Immunity
(Moderators: Thad Stappenbeck / Andrew Luster)
2:00 - 2:30 Ana Domingos, Ph.D.
“NeuroImmunometabolism”
2:30 - 3:00 Luke O’Neill, Ph.D.
“Immunometabolism meets Immunothrombosis”
3:00 - 3:30 Lydia Lynch, Ph.D.
“Diet, lipids and anti-tumor immunity”
3:30 - 4:00 Hongbo Chi, Ph.D.
“Integrating metabolism with systems immunology in immunity and disease”
4:00 - 4:30 Tracey Simon, M.D.
“Race, Lifestyle and Lipids: Improving Prediction of Hepatocellular Carcinoma”